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The College News
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VOL. XIX. No. 12
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933
Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLKOK NKWS, 1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
World Contact Causes
China's Difficulties
John MacMurray Conducted
Meeting of International
Relations Club
CHINA IS NOT ANARCHY
� News Tryouts
The College News announces
that competition is now open
for positions on the Editorial
Board. Junioflrs, Sophomores,
and Freshmen are urged to try
out. Those wishing to compete
should see Sallie Jones, Pern
West 8-12, on either Thursday
or Monday.
Mr. John V. A. MacMurray, for-
mer DV S. Minister to China, and
now a professor at Johns Hopkins
University, conducted the first meet-
ing of the new International Rela-
tions Club in the Music Room, Feb-
ruary 11. Taking "China As a Po-
litical Entity" as the subject of his
address, he pointed out the difficulty
which a people traditionally averse to
vigorous government have naturally
encountered when suddenly ^aced
with the necessity of taking their
place in the modern family of na-
tions.
China, as the oldest extant civili-
zation, Mr. MacMurray said, has pro.
duced one of the most fascinating and
compelling of world cultures. The
mass of the people, living close to the
soil, show an adaptability and pre-
eminently human quality which has
enabled them to survive through thou-
sands of years with little or no
change in their ideas. One of the
constants of their traditional civili-
zation is a peculiar attitude toward
government as a nuisance which had
to be tolerated for the preservatior*
of order. The Emperor was not an
Oriental potentate, but jnerely a cere-
monial officer whose meagre power
was limited by passive resistance and
frequent rebellion.
This spirit of philosophic anarchy
was possible in China while she re-
mained isolated, but her sudden con-
tact with the greater material wealth
and power of the Western world has
abruptly opposed contrasted Occiden-
tal activism with Oriental passivity,
Western social coherence, with Chi-
nese individualism. The Chinese in-
stinctively resisted change so stub-
bornly that the determination of the
effete Ching dynasty to foster the
process of modernization proved its
downfall in 1911. At the time of this
revolution, Chinese students who had
been educated in America attempted
to set up a republic, but such a form
of government, of course, only sue
ceeds with a people which has been
trained for generations in the re-
sponsibilities of a democracy. The
first result of the upheaval was there-
fore the emergence of a dictator�
Yoan Shih-Kai. When he disappear-
ed from the scene, only a military
system remained. For twenty odd
years, Chinese political history has
been merely the story of the selfish
rivalry of military leaders seeking
power.
Some significant development can,
(Continued on fage Pour)
Shaw Comedy to be
, Dramat's Spring Play
Easter Mystery to be Given Out-
of-Doors is Next Offer-
ing of Players
PRINCETON MAY ASSIST
CALENDAR
Thursday, February 23: Mrs.
George Gilhorn will speak on
Women in Politics. Common
Room, 5.00 P. M.
V. Sackville-West will speak
"on James Joyce and D. H. Law-
rence. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Friday, February 24: Class
Swimming Meet, 4.00 P. M.
Saturday, February 25: Bryn.
Mawr Varsity and � �- Second
Teams vs. Philadelphia Cricket
Club First and Second Basket
ball Teams. 10.00 A. M.
Sunday, February 26: Chap-
el. Musical Service with ad-
dress by Miss Sallie Phelps.
Music Room, 7.30 P. M. j
Monday, February 27: Dr.
Alfred Adler will speak on
Contributions of Individual
Psychology. Goodhart, 8.30
P. M.
Tuesday, February 28: In-
ternational Relations Club will
meet. Address by Mr. Watt.
Common Room, 8.00 P. M.
Thursday, March 2: Saks
Fashion Show. Common Room,
2.00-6.00 P. M.
The outline of the spring plans of
both the Varsity Players and the
Varsity Dramatics Board has been
settled tentatively, pending confirma
tion from the Dean's and the Presi-
dent's offices, as to dates and choice
of plays. The Players intend to pro-
duce only one more play------probably
an Easter Mystery from one of the
old English cycles. This will be done
under the direction of Miss Evelyn
Thompson and Miss Eleanor Eck-
stein, with the assistance of Dr. Enid
Glen, of the English department. It
is hoped that the play can be done
out-of-doors, either on Merion Com-
mon or in the cloisters, and that it
can be done with many folk-dance.-
and entreaet divertissements, as the
plays were done originally. The
Players have felt that the coming ot
the French Club play and the Fresh-
man Show so close upon each other in
March left very little time for one-
act plays. They have consequently
decided upon this rather ambitious
piece of work as their sole offering
for tfie rest of the year, and set the
date for it sometime in the last week
before spring vacation.
Miss Thomas Speaks
for Summer School
School Especially Needed This
Year as Relief of Un-
employment
MUST FACE EXPENSES
The Dramatic Board has set as the
date for their big spring play, the
twenty-first and twenty-second of
April. The play this year will prob-
ably be a Shaw comedy, but the act-
ual play has not yet been chosen.
Heartbreak House and You Never
Can Tell have been discussed as pos-
sibilities and it is likely that the
choice lies between the two. It is
hoped that the male parts will be
taken by individual actors from
Princeton's Theatre Intime, although
there is to be no formal connection
with that organization. Here again
the "details have not yet been made
definite, and will probably not be set-
tled until ''the play has been finally
chosen. One novel feature of the or-
ganization of this particular play is
that for the first time in any play,
a class is to be given preference in
the casting and the appointing of
production chairmen. Due to the fact
that the last undertaking of the year
is planned for Garden Party night,
when it is hoped that a Greek trag-
edy will be done outside of Good-
hart in the natural amphitheatre,
and the fact that this play will havt
to be done exclusively by underclass-
men, it is planned to give seniors
preference in the April play.
The project of the Greek tragedy
is again a most ambitious one, and
the plans are still vague. It will
have to be done by the three lower
classes, because the confusion of
graduation week would interfere too
much if seniors were taking part. It
will be done under the direction of
Miss Carrie Schwab and Miss Janet
Barber. Mrs. William Flexner, di-
rector of the Royal Family, has con-
sented to direct the Shaw play, and
possibly to help with the last play
as well. The choice of the Greek play
lies at present betwen the Alcestes
and Iphigenia ami Taurus. The only
definite plans that have been made
are about the production end of it,
for it is pretty well determined^ that
it- is to be done at night, or in the
twilight, in the natural amphithe-
atre. with the stone walls of Good-
hart as a background.
On Sunday evening in the Common
Room a very interesting meeting was
held to explain to students the in-
spiration, aims, and achievements of
the Bryn Mawr Summer School. The
speakers were President Emeritus M.
Carey Thomas, Mrs. Stokes, chairman
of the Summer School Committee, and
two alumnae of the Summer School.
- It was a great privilege for the
students who have had no opportun-
ity to meet Miss Thomas since she re-
tired from the presidency of the col-
lege to hear her speak on the Sum-
mer School, which grew purely from
her idea. In the summer of 1921
Bryn Mawr opened her halls for
eight weeks of classes in which in-
dustrial women might obtain the same
type of education as do the students
of the regular college. This was the
first attempt of its kind ever made
by any American college or univer-
sity.
This year the Summer School faces
a depression more serious than any
which has occurred in former years,
because it extends to all countries of
the world. Because of this very rea-
son such an effort as the Summer
School needs more help than ever be-
fore. Thirty-seven and a half mil-
lions of people are without sufficient
food and clothing. Through a south-
ern school for industrial women an
appeal has reached us from unem-
ployed workers for books to read in
the free time which they now find
on their hands. Two hundred dollars
is the cost ;of eight weeks' teaching
for each student, not including trav-
�ling expenses. The $20,000 must be
mot, and those who have, ever been
associated with the Summer School
will agree that nowhere will support
be more amply repaid. One cannot
help being inspired by the enthusi-
asm and the mental training which re-
sult from having to hold down a
job.
Considering that approximately
nine-tenths of our population are
workers it seems as though they
should have as good education as the
one-tenth who do not work. Haphaz-
ard living is no longer economically
possible; from now on the world will
have to be planned. The present gen-
eration will have to legalize birth-
control, assure equal opportunities,
and abolish sheer profits. The old or-
der of living has decayed; it is up
to us to save what is worth while and
to establish a "new order of co-opera-
tion and friendship." When there is
a closer relationship between indus-
try and those "who do not.always do
much work," it will be a happier
world.
In conclusion, Miss Thomas told
the story_Q&bow the idea of the Sum-
mer School first came to her. Watch-
ing the sunset one night in the Al-
gerian desert she had a vision of how
empty the Bryn Mawr campus must
be and how she would like to have
it filled in the summer with indus-
trial women. Unlike most visions,
everyone approved of it, and the Bryn
Mawr Summer School came into
being.
President Park then-reminded us
that a week after the undergraduates
leave the campus is filled again. The
summer students have many privi-
(Contlnued on Pane Four)
Industrial Problems
Discussed in Goodhart
Child Labor and Occupational
Diseases Are Main Topics
of Conference
NEED RAPID LEGISLATION
Victoria Sackville-West
Noted British author, who ivill
speak on James Joyce and D. H.
Lawrence in Goodhart Hall to-
morroie evening at 8.20.
Sackville-West to Talk
on Joyce and Lawrence
Fashion Show
On Thursday, March 2, Saks-
Fifth Avenue will hold a fash-
ion show of spring clothes in
the Common Room from two to
six. The clothes will be mod-
eled by undergraduates, and or-
ders will be taken for immedi
ate delivery. The top price is
to be twenty-five dollars on all
models.
The Honorable V. Sackville-West j
comes as^a lecturer to Bryn Mawri
this week with a literary, political, j
and social background well qualify-1
ing her to discuss James Joyce and
D. H. Lawrence in "the light of the
modern literary spirit.
She is associated with the Blooms-j
bu.y groups, literary gatherings cen- j
tenng about Virginia and Leonard
Woolf and the Hogarth Press, and in-
cluding Rebecca West, the Sitwells,
Lytton Strachey, and E. M. Forster.
Hugh Walpole has compared her
poetry to that, of gdith Sitwell and
her most famous and most English
poem, The Land, to Maurice Hew-
lett's The Sona of the Plough. "She
has done everything in her life . . .
simply becaQse she thought it would
be a delightful thing to do," and this
spirit makes her work essentially ro-
mantic and yet unsentimental and
real. It is as she herself has written
in The Future of the- Novel, an essay
published in the Bookman: "Real-
ism itself has turned into a school-
boy's irreverent gesture rather appre-
hensively made under the nose of a
censor;" but again, she has defined
the "proper function of fiction" to be
"the delineation of life as we know
it." She is an intimate friend of
Virginia Woolf, and is recognized as,
the heroine of the latter's Orlando
She was born in 1892 at Knole
Castle, the ancestral estate in Kent,
which was a gift of Queen Elizabeth
to her Lord Treasurer, Thomas Sack-
ville; and she grew up in the atmo-'
sphere of overstuffed, pompous Ed-
wardian aristocracy. She first estab-
lished her reputation as a poet in
1926 with the publication of The,
Land, the poem which was awarded
the Hawthornden Prize in 1927, a lyr-
ical tribute to the English country-
side and the English peasant.
But it is her intimacy with and un-
derstanding of the butterfly age be-
fore the war, when Edward was king,
combined with the largeness of view
she has gained from her extensive
traveling in Europe and in the East
�to Persia, Hungary, Ecuador, Bul-
garia, and Morocco�that have dis-
tinguished her as a novelist, that give
The Eihcuidit'iix the charm of a pene-
trating treatment, finely satirical and
realistic. The poetry of The Edivurd-
ians lies in Chevron, the old house,
the romantic history is inherent in
the spirit of the period, and the wit i<
the mature amusement of a modern
and a cosmopolitan Englishwoman.
Her other most important book, All
Passion Spent, may be compared with
The Ednardiuns, not only as a dis-
tinguished novel, but as a work of
beauty, a "witty and lucid excursion
into detachment."
The Honorable V. Sackville-West is
also the author of Family History,
Stthutn in Ecuador, Twelve Days,
King's Daug'nterx, and an historical
study of the family house, Knole and
the Sacki-illes.
Again, Hugh Walpole: "Here, at
any rate, is a most interesting figure,
someone who is gracious, humorous,
and always a creator."
Friday afternoon a conference was
held in the Auditorium ot Goodhart
on the Standards and Security of
Employment in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. The aims and back-
ground of the assembled groups were
set forth in the introductory speech
of the chairman, Mr. John Phillips,
president of the Pennsylvania Fed-
eration of Labor. "It is pretty gen-
erally accepted that many of the dif-
ficulties confronting the people at
large, and acutely affecting the work-
ers of this Commonwealth in particu-
lar, can be remedied by proper legis-
lation. Secondly, there is now an in-
creased public interest in public mat-
ters. And lastly, most of the legis-
lators are disposed to meet the mat-
ter in a constructive way, although
we are still confronted by the Bour-
bon, and much influence must be.
brought to bear to offset the reac-
tionary forces."
Miss Beatrice McConnell, Director
of the Bureau of Women and Chil-
dren of the Pennsylvania Department
of Labor and Industry, was the first
speaker. Significant facts and trends
of Child Labor in the State were ad-
duced by her as an "indication of the
importance of Child Labor today and
as showing that the problem is not
being eliminated by the depression
and consequent cutting of wages and
the number of employed, but rather
intensified." The general opinion is
that the number of employed children
has dropped to almost nothing. That,
unfortunately, is a false impression,
which is contradicted by the fact
that the number of work certificates
requested by children withdrawing
from Pennsylvania schools has swell-
ed. It has been imposible to make a
wide survey because of the cut in
State appropriations for this work;
but the reduction of employed chil-
dren is only proportional to the re-
duction of adult' employed.
There has been a change in the
type of work offered the child. Street-
trading, which entails juvenile de-
linquency, is rampant, especially in
the larger cities. Domestic service,
unregulated by the Child Labor Law,.
has risen. And last, but not least,
industrial homework, usually done
under high pressure, spasmodically,
is common under the present depres-
sion system of manufacturing as the
orders come in.
"The loss to our children today can-
not be made up tomorrow. The re-
sults of ^recreation, good food, and
education are lost today and lost for-
ever." Miss McConnell's sujrK<'."-tions
for curing the problem of Child La-
bor were the adoption of a minimum
wage and age as well as the maxi-
mum number of hours, which is now
in fdrce.'
The next speaker on the progranv
was Dr. Alice Hamilton, Assistant
Professor of Industrial Medicine at
the Harvard Medical School, talking
on "Occupational Disease With Spe-
cial Reference to Children." She pro-
pounded the question, "What sort of
child asks for working papers at the
age of fourteen? By and large, he
or she is the child of the very poor'
in a household where there has never
been enough -of physical or spiritual
comfort. He is handicapped already
and usually has a damaged heart or
tuberculo.-i-."
However, children are not often
found in poisonous trades in this
country, except in .printers' shops,
where they contract lead-poisoning.
This is certainly an evil, but small
when compared to the harm done to
working adults. Dr. Hamilton said
that she would change her subject
from that of children to the more
general subject of Occupationaf Bis-
ease in Industry as a whole. In prov-
(Contlnued on Page Three)
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The College News
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VOL. XIX. No. 12
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933
Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLKOK NKWS, 1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
World Contact Causes
China's Difficulties
John MacMurray Conducted
Meeting of International
Relations Club
CHINA IS NOT ANARCHY
� News Tryouts
The College News announces
that competition is now open
for positions on the Editorial
Board. Junioflrs, Sophomores,
and Freshmen are urged to try
out. Those wishing to compete
should see Sallie Jones, Pern
West 8-12, on either Thursday
or Monday.
Mr. John V. A. MacMurray, for-
mer DV S. Minister to China, and
now a professor at Johns Hopkins
University, conducted the first meet-
ing of the new International Rela-
tions Club in the Music Room, Feb-
ruary 11. Taking "China As a Po-
litical Entity" as the subject of his
address, he pointed out the difficulty
which a people traditionally averse to
vigorous government have naturally
encountered when suddenly ^aced
with the necessity of taking their
place in the modern family of na-
tions.
China, as the oldest extant civili-
zation, Mr. MacMurray said, has pro.
duced one of the most fascinating and
compelling of world cultures. The
mass of the people, living close to the
soil, show an adaptability and pre-
eminently human quality which has
enabled them to survive through thou-
sands of years with little or no
change in their ideas. One of the
constants of their traditional civili-
zation is a peculiar attitude toward
government as a nuisance which had
to be tolerated for the preservatior*
of order. The Emperor was not an
Oriental potentate, but jnerely a cere-
monial officer whose meagre power
was limited by passive resistance and
frequent rebellion.
This spirit of philosophic anarchy
was possible in China while she re-
mained isolated, but her sudden con-
tact with the greater material wealth
and power of the Western world has
abruptly opposed contrasted Occiden-
tal activism with Oriental passivity,
Western social coherence, with Chi-
nese individualism. The Chinese in-
stinctively resisted change so stub-
bornly that the determination of the
effete Ching dynasty to foster the
process of modernization proved its
downfall in 1911. At the time of this
revolution, Chinese students who had
been educated in America attempted
to set up a republic, but such a form
of government, of course, only sue
ceeds with a people which has been
trained for generations in the re-
sponsibilities of a democracy. The
first result of the upheaval was there-
fore the emergence of a dictator�
Yoan Shih-Kai. When he disappear-
ed from the scene, only a military
system remained. For twenty odd
years, Chinese political history has
been merely the story of the selfish
rivalry of military leaders seeking
power.
Some significant development can,
(Continued on fage Pour)
Shaw Comedy to be
, Dramat's Spring Play
Easter Mystery to be Given Out-
of-Doors is Next Offer-
ing of Players
PRINCETON MAY ASSIST
CALENDAR
Thursday, February 23: Mrs.
George Gilhorn will speak on
Women in Politics. Common
Room, 5.00 P. M.
V. Sackville-West will speak
"on James Joyce and D. H. Law-
rence. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Friday, February 24: Class
Swimming Meet, 4.00 P. M.
Saturday, February 25: Bryn.
Mawr Varsity and � �- Second
Teams vs. Philadelphia Cricket
Club First and Second Basket
ball Teams. 10.00 A. M.
Sunday, February 26: Chap-
el. Musical Service with ad-
dress by Miss Sallie Phelps.
Music Room, 7.30 P. M. j
Monday, February 27: Dr.
Alfred Adler will speak on
Contributions of Individual
Psychology. Goodhart, 8.30
P. M.
Tuesday, February 28: In-
ternational Relations Club will
meet. Address by Mr. Watt.
Common Room, 8.00 P. M.
Thursday, March 2: Saks
Fashion Show. Common Room,
2.00-6.00 P. M.
The outline of the spring plans of
both the Varsity Players and the
Varsity Dramatics Board has been
settled tentatively, pending confirma
tion from the Dean's and the Presi-
dent's offices, as to dates and choice
of plays. The Players intend to pro-
duce only one more play------probably
an Easter Mystery from one of the
old English cycles. This will be done
under the direction of Miss Evelyn
Thompson and Miss Eleanor Eck-
stein, with the assistance of Dr. Enid
Glen, of the English department. It
is hoped that the play can be done
out-of-doors, either on Merion Com-
mon or in the cloisters, and that it
can be done with many folk-dance.-
and entreaet divertissements, as the
plays were done originally. The
Players have felt that the coming ot
the French Club play and the Fresh-
man Show so close upon each other in
March left very little time for one-
act plays. They have consequently
decided upon this rather ambitious
piece of work as their sole offering
for tfie rest of the year, and set the
date for it sometime in the last week
before spring vacation.
Miss Thomas Speaks
for Summer School
School Especially Needed This
Year as Relief of Un-
employment
MUST FACE EXPENSES
The Dramatic Board has set as the
date for their big spring play, the
twenty-first and twenty-second of
April. The play this year will prob-
ably be a Shaw comedy, but the act-
ual play has not yet been chosen.
Heartbreak House and You Never
Can Tell have been discussed as pos-
sibilities and it is likely that the
choice lies between the two. It is
hoped that the male parts will be
taken by individual actors from
Princeton's Theatre Intime, although
there is to be no formal connection
with that organization. Here again
the "details have not yet been made
definite, and will probably not be set-
tled until ''the play has been finally
chosen. One novel feature of the or-
ganization of this particular play is
that for the first time in any play,
a class is to be given preference in
the casting and the appointing of
production chairmen. Due to the fact
that the last undertaking of the year
is planned for Garden Party night,
when it is hoped that a Greek trag-
edy will be done outside of Good-
hart in the natural amphitheatre,
and the fact that this play will havt
to be done exclusively by underclass-
men, it is planned to give seniors
preference in the April play.
The project of the Greek tragedy
is again a most ambitious one, and
the plans are still vague. It will
have to be done by the three lower
classes, because the confusion of
graduation week would interfere too
much if seniors were taking part. It
will be done under the direction of
Miss Carrie Schwab and Miss Janet
Barber. Mrs. William Flexner, di-
rector of the Royal Family, has con-
sented to direct the Shaw play, and
possibly to help with the last play
as well. The choice of the Greek play
lies at present betwen the Alcestes
and Iphigenia ami Taurus. The only
definite plans that have been made
are about the production end of it,
for it is pretty well determined^ that
it- is to be done at night, or in the
twilight, in the natural amphithe-
atre. with the stone walls of Good-
hart as a background.
On Sunday evening in the Common
Room a very interesting meeting was
held to explain to students the in-
spiration, aims, and achievements of
the Bryn Mawr Summer School. The
speakers were President Emeritus M.
Carey Thomas, Mrs. Stokes, chairman
of the Summer School Committee, and
two alumnae of the Summer School.
- It was a great privilege for the
students who have had no opportun-
ity to meet Miss Thomas since she re-
tired from the presidency of the col-
lege to hear her speak on the Sum-
mer School, which grew purely from
her idea. In the summer of 1921
Bryn Mawr opened her halls for
eight weeks of classes in which in-
dustrial women might obtain the same
type of education as do the students
of the regular college. This was the
first attempt of its kind ever made
by any American college or univer-
sity.
This year the Summer School faces
a depression more serious than any
which has occurred in former years,
because it extends to all countries of
the world. Because of this very rea-
son such an effort as the Summer
School needs more help than ever be-
fore. Thirty-seven and a half mil-
lions of people are without sufficient
food and clothing. Through a south-
ern school for industrial women an
appeal has reached us from unem-
ployed workers for books to read in
the free time which they now find
on their hands. Two hundred dollars
is the cost ;of eight weeks' teaching
for each student, not including trav-
�ling expenses. The $20,000 must be
mot, and those who have, ever been
associated with the Summer School
will agree that nowhere will support
be more amply repaid. One cannot
help being inspired by the enthusi-
asm and the mental training which re-
sult from having to hold down a
job.
Considering that approximately
nine-tenths of our population are
workers it seems as though they
should have as good education as the
one-tenth who do not work. Haphaz-
ard living is no longer economically
possible; from now on the world will
have to be planned. The present gen-
eration will have to legalize birth-
control, assure equal opportunities,
and abolish sheer profits. The old or-
der of living has decayed; it is up
to us to save what is worth while and
to establish a "new order of co-opera-
tion and friendship." When there is
a closer relationship between indus-
try and those "who do not.always do
much work," it will be a happier
world.
In conclusion, Miss Thomas told
the story_Q&bow the idea of the Sum-
mer School first came to her. Watch-
ing the sunset one night in the Al-
gerian desert she had a vision of how
empty the Bryn Mawr campus must
be and how she would like to have
it filled in the summer with indus-
trial women. Unlike most visions,
everyone approved of it, and the Bryn
Mawr Summer School came into
being.
President Park then-reminded us
that a week after the undergraduates
leave the campus is filled again. The
summer students have many privi-
(Contlnued on Pane Four)
Industrial Problems
Discussed in Goodhart
Child Labor and Occupational
Diseases Are Main Topics
of Conference
NEED RAPID LEGISLATION
Victoria Sackville-West
Noted British author, who ivill
speak on James Joyce and D. H.
Lawrence in Goodhart Hall to-
morroie evening at 8.20.
Sackville-West to Talk
on Joyce and Lawrence
Fashion Show
On Thursday, March 2, Saks-
Fifth Avenue will hold a fash-
ion show of spring clothes in
the Common Room from two to
six. The clothes will be mod-
eled by undergraduates, and or-
ders will be taken for immedi
ate delivery. The top price is
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The Honorable V. Sackville-West j
comes as^a lecturer to Bryn Mawri
this week with a literary, political, j
and social background well qualify-1
ing her to discuss James Joyce and
D. H. Lawrence in "the light of the
modern literary spirit.
She is associated with the Blooms-j
bu.y groups, literary gatherings cen- j
tenng about Virginia and Leonard
Woolf and the Hogarth Press, and in-
cluding Rebecca West, the Sitwells,
Lytton Strachey, and E. M. Forster.
Hugh Walpole has compared her
poetry to that, of gdith Sitwell and
her most famous and most English
poem, The Land, to Maurice Hew-
lett's The Sona of the Plough. "She
has done everything in her life . . .
simply becaQse she thought it would
be a delightful thing to do," and this
spirit makes her work essentially ro-
mantic and yet unsentimental and
real. It is as she herself has written
in The Future of the- Novel, an essay
published in the Bookman: "Real-
ism itself has turned into a school-
boy's irreverent gesture rather appre-
hensively made under the nose of a
censor;" but again, she has defined
the "proper function of fiction" to be
"the delineation of life as we know
it." She is an intimate friend of
Virginia Woolf, and is recognized as,
the heroine of the latter's Orlando
She was born in 1892 at Knole
Castle, the ancestral estate in Kent,
which was a gift of Queen Elizabeth
to her Lord Treasurer, Thomas Sack-
ville; and she grew up in the atmo-'
sphere of overstuffed, pompous Ed-
wardian aristocracy. She first estab-
lished her reputation as a poet in
1926 with the publication of The,
Land, the poem which was awarded
the Hawthornden Prize in 1927, a lyr-
ical tribute to the English country-
side and the English peasant.
But it is her intimacy with and un-
derstanding of the butterfly age be-
fore the war, when Edward was king,
combined with the largeness of view
she has gained from her extensive
traveling in Europe and in the East
�to Persia, Hungary, Ecuador, Bul-
garia, and Morocco�that have dis-
tinguished her as a novelist, that give
The Eihcuidit'iix the charm of a pene-
trating treatment, finely satirical and
realistic. The poetry of The Edivurd-
ians lies in Chevron, the old house,
the romantic history is inherent in
the spirit of the period, and the wit i<
the mature amusement of a modern
and a cosmopolitan Englishwoman.
Her other most important book, All
Passion Spent, may be compared with
The Ednardiuns, not only as a dis-
tinguished novel, but as a work of
beauty, a "witty and lucid excursion
into detachment."
The Honorable V. Sackville-West is
also the author of Family History,
Stthutn in Ecuador, Twelve Days,
King's Daug'nterx, and an historical
study of the family house, Knole and
the Sacki-illes.
Again, Hugh Walpole: "Here, at
any rate, is a most interesting figure,
someone who is gracious, humorous,
and always a creator."
Friday afternoon a conference was
held in the Auditorium ot Goodhart
on the Standards and Security of
Employment in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. The aims and back-
ground of the assembled groups were
set forth in the introductory speech
of the chairman, Mr. John Phillips,
president of the Pennsylvania Fed-
eration of Labor. "It is pretty gen-
erally accepted that many of the dif-
ficulties confronting the people at
large, and acutely affecting the work-
ers of this Commonwealth in particu-
lar, can be remedied by proper legis-
lation. Secondly, there is now an in-
creased public interest in public mat-
ters. And lastly, most of the legis-
lators are disposed to meet the mat-
ter in a constructive way, although
we are still confronted by the Bour-
bon, and much influence must be.
brought to bear to offset the reac-
tionary forces."
Miss Beatrice McConnell, Director
of the Bureau of Women and Chil-
dren of the Pennsylvania Department
of Labor and Industry, was the first
speaker. Significant facts and trends
of Child Labor in the State were ad-
duced by her as an "indication of the
importance of Child Labor today and
as showing that the problem is not
being eliminated by the depression
and consequent cutting of wages and
the number of employed, but rather
intensified." The general opinion is
that the number of employed children
has dropped to almost nothing. That,
unfortunately, is a false impression,
which is contradicted by the fact
that the number of work certificates
requested by children withdrawing
from Pennsylvania schools has swell-
ed. It has been imposible to make a
wide survey because of the cut in
State appropriations for this work;
but the reduction of employed chil-
dren is only proportional to the re-
duction of adult' employed.
There has been a change in the
type of work offered the child. Street-
trading, which entails juvenile de-
linquency, is rampant, especially in
the larger cities. Domestic service,
unregulated by the Child Labor Law,.
has risen. And last, but not least,
industrial homework, usually done
under high pressure, spasmodically,
is common under the present depres-
sion system of manufacturing as the
orders come in.
"The loss to our children today can-
not be made up tomorrow. The re-
sults of ^recreation, good food, and
education are lost today and lost for-
ever." Miss McConnell's sujrK